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News staff accept TEN redundancies

Five Adelaide newsroom staff have accepted voluntary redundancies at TEN.

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The Advertiser today reports five Adelaide newsroom staff have accepted voluntary redundancies at TEN.

The departures follow a number of redundancies offered around the country, many of which hit Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane staff.

The newspaper reports the five individuals are a mix of on-air and production staff but the network yesterday refused to release their names.

“As expected, it has taken a couple of weeks to work through the voluntary redundancy process which was announced on July 3,” a TEN spokeswoman told the newspaper.

“In Adelaide, we have successfully accommodated everyone who applied for a voluntary redundancy, with no targeted redundancies in the news room.”

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  1. Amen Walter. An industry in crisis and over-saturated with egotistical, arrogant Gen-Y graduates who expect to waltz into a top pay grade from day one in the workforce. NOT IN MY DAY SUNSHINE. There’s a little something I like to call paying your dues…but not anymore and the castle crumbles….

  2. I like Rebecca Morse & Belinda Heggen & their outfits! Hope they stay in Adelaide!

    p.s. saw Nikki Dwyer reading a news update recently, remember her? When did she return?

  3. Are the five Adelaide staff who were sacked members of the journalists’ union, the MEAA?

    Fact is, commercial TV does not do news. It has no interest in journalists. It does not deal in facts. It deals in factoids. Entertainment dressed as news. And warped.

    Sorry. Factoids.

    Join the union.

  5. @Ryan
    I think Lachlan is doing the job without pay already.. so…

    @Anton
    I really can’t see the point of putting something else on if 6.30 hangs around. Do you really expect people to watch News at 5 then switch over because they don’t like The Simpsons, then switch back to George? … No way! They will switch over to either 7 or 9 and simply stay there till 7pm

  6. Don’t think the current 90 minute Ten News format will last long – surely only a matter of time till it returns to an hour and maybe Simpsons could return to 6 PM? (No reason why it can’t air on both 10 & 11)

  8. There is not enough job positions in newsrooms presently across this country. Is this an industry in crisis? I know of been good producers/reporters who can not get work in this field as jobs are limited. And when there is the odd job, the job goes to graduates who can not write but are cheaper to hire. TV news in this country has hit rock bottom.

  15. @ Alex Basically, when a position becomes ‘redundant’, it means it no longer exists or there is no need for it to exist because another position takes over the redundant position’s responsibilities.
    A ‘redundancy’ is basically a financial package to anyone who has been fired or moved from the now ‘redundant’ position. To be offered a redundancy is to be offered financial help (money of course) to soften the impact of leaving your position.

  17. well this certainly is a kick in the pants for the people involved with news in each state who work for ten. Although we knew for some time now that people would be getting the chop. the gutting of Network Ten continues.
    @ Alex. redundancies is when people or workers become redundant or useless and are no longer needed or wanted.

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